Police cleared a pro-Hamas tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the U.S. — and increasingly, in Europe.
Protesters numbering in the several hundreds had gathered in an area known as the Quad for at least eight days. Campus administrators warned them Friday to leave the area or face removal.
Police in riot gear blocked access to the Quad early Tuesday as law enforcement dismantled the encampment. Officers picked up a barricade and moved it toward protesters, some of whom chanted, “Up up with liberation, Down down with occupation!” Police and protesters pushed back and forth along the barricade as the officers moved to reestablish control.
The pro-Hamas student protests have spread to Europe, where they are gaining momentum. Police arrested about 125 activists Tuesday as they broke up a camp at the University of Amsterdam, and German police dismantled an occupation at Berlin’s Free University. Students also have held protests or set up encampments in Finland, Denmark, Italy, Spain, France and Britain.
(AP & YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem) )
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the university “protests” in usa and europe have been totally hijacked by “outsiders” and jihad interests, who are orchestrating and funding the whole anti-Israel movement. Glad America is finally getting wise to what is really going on. Free speech has to be redefined. Incitement and violent action and language is not free speech. time to get the 1st amendment updated.